VOLUME XXXVI, NO. 3 JANUARY 19, 1983 UNCERTAIN ASSAY READING in books like Jonathan Schell's The ... Fate of the Earth, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, journals lik ... ronicles, in varying measure, of the misuse of the planet by human beings, and of one another—it is nat ... nservation in America, starting with Thoreau, then GeorgePerkins Marsh, with attention to John Wesley Powel ...

VOLUME IX, NO. 18 MAY 2, 1956 THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM A PASSAGE quoted from Anne Sayre, a contri ... e Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in MANAS for April :11 (page 7), seems of such enduring importance ... as to merit further exploration. Miss Sayre is engaged in questioning the ... on to the subject, no one is more interesting than GeorgeP. Marsh, an American philologist who in 1874 publ ...

VOLUME VI, NO. 27 JULY 8, 1953 WONDERS OF MEMORY PHILOSOPHERS and men of letters, we are often t ... old, should stick to their specialties and not invade the realm of practical aff ... airs, or trench upon other departments of learning. Thus when Dr. Ein ... admired, The Earth as Modified by Human Action, by GeorgeP. Marsh, we found on the last page a passage whic ...

VOLUME XXV, NO. 17 APRIL 26, 1972 SCHOOL AND SOCIETY THERE is a woman principal of a ghetto scho ... ol in Brooklyn, New York, who seems to have put her finger on some of the most difficult complex ... social affairs. The woman is Dr. Esther Rothman, a psychologist who runs the Livingston School for girl ... ent century wasn't there at all. Take for example, GeorgeP. Marsh's epochmaking book, Man and Nature, after ... begin could be found than the volume by GeorgeP. Marsh, to which Pinchot refers. We have had the book for ...

VOLUME XXXVIII, NO. 7 FEBRUARY 13, 1985 A FORMIDABLE ASSIGNMENT THE tenth conference sponsored b ... ust 15-18 at Sun Valley, Idaho. Discussion was on "Parks in the West and American Culture" and was ampl ... y reported in High Country News for October 1. One speak ... s: Although many years earlier such naturalists as George Catlin, Emerson, and Thoreau had vaguely recognize ... s would be without individuals like GeorgePerkins Marsh, John Muir, John Burroughs, and the dozens of men a ...

VOLUME XXXVI, NO. 19 MAY 11, 1983 THE NEGLECTED CAPACITY OF HUMANS THAT the abstractions of scie ... h all our machines run and our electronic devices operate do not, in their totality, constitute a faith ... ful portrait of nature is now well established and a fam ... ht begin with a study of Man and Nature (1864), by GeorgePerkins Marsh, retitled in another edition (1874) ...

VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 23 JUNE 4, 1980 BLIGHT AND DELIGHT AN old Persian maxim declares: "Truth is o ... other demanding incessantly new demonstrations and proofs." It was the reading through of a daily newsp... aper—one of the better ones--which recalled this anci ... s. In his Man and Nature, first published in 1864, GeorgePerkins Marsh, America's first great ecologist, ma ...

VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 3 JANUARY 21, 1981 COMPREHENDING THE CONFUSION How are people affected by what ... other people say? This is a question so enormous as to mak ... e attempts to answer it almost ridiculous. But such questio ... ce from the index that there are two references to GeorgePerkins Marsh, who was the author of Man and Natur ...

VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 4 JANUARY 22, 1986 HOW TO BE SENSIBLE HOW shall America regain its health? Thi ... reason that we have no idea of how sick we are. In past years doctors have pointed out that when a popu ... mes a wasting illness, since everyone is affected, people simply live at a lower level without realizin ... had been stripped of vegetation. There the author, GeorgePerkins Marsh, a pioneer ecologist, quotes from Je ...